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NEW YORK STATE PRISONER JUSTICE NETWORK – Connecting Regions, Issues, and Strategies

The New York State Prisoner Justice Network grew out of the New York State Prisoner Justice Conference held in Albany on March 27, 2010.

The conference brought together under one roof a wide range of New York State organizations and individuals working on a diversity of prisoner justice issues to share ideas, information, energy, strategies, hope, and inspiration. To view the list of 50+ organizations that sponsored, planned, and participated in the conference, click on the “ORGANIZATIONS” tab above.

The goal of the New York State Prisoner Justice Network is to build our individual and collective strength and to challenge and change New York’s criminal injustice system.

The Network works to facilitate communication and connection among all the activists, advocates, and organizations from different regions, with diverse approaches, doing work toward justice for people in prison in New York State, and to share ideas, information, calls for support, campaigns in progress, obstacles, and successes in order to strengthen and support each others’ work.

The Network’s purpose is to explore, plan, strategize and implement organizations and individuals working collaboratively to change the criminal injustice system, to bring our collective strength to bear on changing the intolerable system of mass incarceration, injustice, and disrespect for the lives of our loved ones and the survival of our families and communities, that now prevails, and to reverse the culture of racism, inequality, and scapegoating that sustains it.

For more information about the New York State Prisoner Justice Network, email us at nysprisonerjustice@gmail.com.

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  1. Silvy Ovalle  •  Jun 22, 2011 @12:40 pm

    Hi, my name is Silkvy Ovalle, Director of the Central Islip Community Patrol in existant since 1975 with documentation to prove so. Please advise me of any meeting which is for the betterment of Prisoner Justice network, as I ,not only have the time, but plenty energy in in order to see justice, honesty no discrimination and no violence. There is so much unjust going on in our correctional facilities and it is about time we ll work together for change. I applaud you Prisoner Justice Nerwork

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    The mission of the New York State Prisoner Justice Network is to bring together the varied and diverse organizations and individuals working for prisoner justice in New York State. There are approximately 90,000 people currently incarcerated in New York’s prisons and jails – people of all ages, sexualities, genders, abilities, and documentation statuses. The overwhelming majority are people of color and of low income. Dozens of organizations address issues of concern in regard to prisoners, their families, and those impacted by the criminal justice system. The goal of the Prisoner Justice Network is to bring these organizations together to share information, energy, strategies, concerns, ideas, best practices, and hopes. We are working to create a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts – a statewide movement for change, justice, compassion, and more human and humane solutions to social problems in place of reliance on incarceration.
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